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Same reason this happened: http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-politics/2...

His website was designed by agency. The agency tasked a designer to create layout, including 'patriot' photos. The designer, perhaps someone who disagrees with Santorum's politics, decided to add a photo of Moot as their own personal jab.




That took me way too long to catch.


Care to help me out? I'm not seeing it.


"America" is misspelled. Took me a while, too.


Are you guys joking? I find it hard to believe someone doesn't catch it instantly i.e. in less than a couple of milliseconds.


Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.



To sum up the video: We're able to read the paragraph I posted because of the context of the words, the letters weren't so jumbled up, not all the words were jumbled up and the 4 letter words were easy to read.

Good points and it's important to be clear about that.


No.


AMERCIA


Well, you could read it as "America is going to the Latinos" therefore 'Americia' is the Latin-ification of "America" (really the US, as Central/South America are also 'America'). There is also the tinfoil hat interpretation:

  AmeriCIA... They're watching you...


A BETTER ONE!


FCUK YEAH!


Amercia != America




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